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Title:Inventors and Impostors: an Economic Analysis of Patent Examination Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2009/15Abstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications – those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and non-obviousness – should be accepted, while bad ... -
Title:Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2009/28Abstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications - those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and nonobviousness - should be accepted, while bad applications ...
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Title:Iran's nuclear program and the global south : the foreign policy of India, Brazil, and South Africa Author(s):ONDERCO, MichalDate:2015Citation:Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Type:BookAbstract:While the Iranian nuclear programme has attracted the attention of the international community and has been dealt with in various international forums, analyses of the responses so far have been largely limited to the study ... -
Title:Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary Author(s):LEVINE, David K.Date:2009Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2009/03Abstract:Behavioral economics is an effort to bring psychological and emotional aspects of human behavior into economic theory. Critics of existing theory, including many psychologists and behavioral economists, poorly understand ...
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Title:Is Contract Law Necessary? Author(s):SCHWARTZ, AlanDate:2010-10-22Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2010/04Abstract:This Lecture argues that much of the contract law in the cases (the US, the UK and Canada) and in the codes (Europe and Latin America) is unnecessary. To say that a law is unnecessary is to say that it does not perform a ...
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Title:Is ethnic diversity a poverty trap? : a complex relationship between ethnicity, trust, and tax morale Author(s):TUSICISNY, AndrejDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2014/09Abstract:Much research indicates that ethnic diversity leads to suboptimal public goods provision and hinders economic development. However, similar levels of ethnic diversity are often associated with very different outcomes. This ...
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Title:Is government contestability an integral part of the definition of democracy? Author(s):TRANTIDIS, ArisDate:2017Citation:Politics, 2017, Vol. 37, No.1, pp. 67-81Type:ArticleAbstract:Is government contestability an integral part of the definition of democracy? The answer to this question affects the way we classify political systems in which, despite a formally open political structure, a dominant ... -
Title:Is the gasoline tax regressive in the twenty-first century? Author(s):TEIXIDÓ, Jordi J.; VERDE, Stefano F.Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2016/19Abstract:Poterba (1991a) has much influenced the literature on the distributional effects of carbon pricing. The gist of Poterba’s study is that the distributional incidence of energy/environmental taxes across households is better ...
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Title:Is the left-right scale a valid measure of ideology? : individual-level variation in associations with 'left' and 'right' and left-right self-placement Author(s):BAUER, Paul C.; BARBERÁ, Pablo; ACKERMANN, Kathrin; VENETZ, AaronDate:2016Citation:Political behavior, 2016, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:In order to measure ideology, political scientists heavily rely on the so-called left-right scale. Left and right are, however, abstract political concepts and may trigger different associations among respondents. If these ...
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Title:Is there a Tension between Transparency and Efficiency in Decisions? The case of the Council of the European Union Author(s):NOVAK, StéphanieDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2011/33Abstract:Decision makers sometimes refer to the tension between transparency and efficiency in decisions. Yet, this argument is not so obvious, partly because the notion of efficiency is unclear. As a first step in the analysis of ...
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Title:Islamist echoes in the context of the Tunisian Islamist Party's 10th congress Author(s):LEMIERE, SophieDate:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2017/07Abstract:Since the uprising in 2011, Tunisia is seen as a political lab whose experiences impact the entire region. The return to the political scene of the Islamists of the Ennahdha Party, and their democratic ascension to power, ...
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Title:The Israel Defense Forces and the Al-Aqsa Intifada: When Tactical Virtuosity Meets Strategic Disappointment Author(s):CATIGNANI, SergioDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2008/04Abstract:The following paper analyzes the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency strategy and campaign carried out against the Palestinian insurgency within the Occupied/Disputed Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ...
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Title:Italian Ambassadorial Networks in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction Author(s):FLETCHER, Catherine; DESILVA, Jennifer MaraDate:2010-01-01Citation:Journal of Early Modern History, 2010, 14, 6, 505-512Type:ArticleAbstract:(No abstract as this is an introduction to a special edition of the journal.)
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Title:Italian colonial policy in Libya and the pious foundations Author(s):GAZZINI, ClaudiaDate:2009Citation:Quaderni storici, 2009, XLIV, 132(3), 653-686Type:Article
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Title:The Italian labyrinth of adjudicating employment rights : in search of 'Ariadne's Thread' Author(s):COMANDÈ, DanielaDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/19Abstract:This paper belongs to a comparative research network coordinated by Professors Susan Corby and Pete Burgess and it deals with the process of adjudicating substantive employment rights in Italy. In particular, the study is ...
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Title:The Janus Face of EU Migration Governance: Impairing democratic governance at home – improving it abroad? Author(s):FREYBURG, TinaDate:2012Citation:European Foreign Affairs Review, 2012, 17, 2/1, Special Issue, 125–142Type:ArticleAbstract:In the field of European Union (EU) migration policies, a large number of legal, administrative, and institutional tightening measures have been established in the name of domestic security since the early 1990s. These ...
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Title:Joined cases C-402/05 and 415/05 (Kadi) and (Al Barakaat) Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2009Citation:Legal Issues of Economic Integration, 2009, 36, 157-183Type:Article
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Title:Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and the Serbian Identity between Poetry and History Author(s):ALEKSOV, BojanDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2007/08Abstract:The recent violent outburst of Serbian nationalism has attracted significant interest in the ever-growing field of nationalism studies. In addition, the so-called ‘cultural turn’ has engaged scholars in the reappraisal of ...
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Title:Juan Valverde, or Building a “Spanish Anatomy” in 16th Century Rome Author(s):ANDRETTA, ElisaDate:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2009/20Abstract:The paper focus on the sojourn in Rome of the Spanish anatomist Juan de Valverd. His role, both within the Spanish community and the political and cultural framework of the city, will be examined in various places of the ...
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Title:Judging in the Multilevel Legal Order: Exploring the Techniques of ‘Hidden Dialogue’ Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2010-01-01Citation:King’s Law Journal, 2010, 21, 2, 257-281Type:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this paper is to focus on that particular form of judicial conversation represented by what I have endeavoured to call the techniques of 'hidden dialogue' between the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the ...
